WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0219. Christian funerary inscription of Stidin

Description: Re-used slab (w: 0.37 x h: 1.47) of grey marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.035-0.045.

Date: Fifth-seventh century CE (context, form)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III, Church III, Tomb T11, in situ in the south walk of the atrium.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((crux))
Ἄ(λφα) ((Chi-Rho)) Ὠ(μέγα) Hik reqies-
cit bon(a)e mem-
ori(a)e Stidin
clericus bi-
5xit in pace
anos UIIII et
reqiebit
in pace ((crux))

Diplomatic


Α ΩHIKREQIES
CITBONEMEM
ORIESTIDIN
CLERICUSBI
5XITINPACE
ANOSUIIIIET
REQIEBIT
INPACE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(cross).(Alpha and Omega on either side of a monogram cross) . Here lies at rest Stidin, of good memory, a priest. He lived in peace for 9 years (sic) and went to rest in peace (cross)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 219, whence IRT, 2009, 219, whence EDH 059195; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VII.21)